In our match at Kempston in February Mark got some stick for being on the worst rink as far as the score goes. A complete reversal of fortunes this time, perhaps playing on his “home” green had something to do with the result. Margaret Cahill, Eric Legate and Tony Ding skipped by Mark were the top rink, their scorecard had some unexplained gaps in it but their final score was 26 – 11,not quite good enough to cover losses on the other rinks.

Doug Whiteland, Jan Umney, Jim Crow and Alan Offord held sway around the tea break, moving from 5-6 down to lead 13 – 6, five ends later they had lost the lead and were one shot adrift at 13 -14, they regained the advantage with a two, dropped a single and the game was tied, the last two ends were shared in a 17 – 17 result

Liz Crow, Fiona Patten, Frank Amos and Bob Bell also had a close game, 7 – 3 up after eight ends, 7 -10 down after twelve ends, back in the lead after fifteen ends at 12 – 10. They dropped six shots on the sixteenth end and another two shots over the last few ends, losing 16 – 22

Ivor Walker, Pat Wisbey, Debbie Roe and Jim Nicholl drew the short straw to play against Refrain’s Captains rink. Despite dropping two fives in the first nine ends they were only 8 – 14 down but the scoreboard stuck on one side and they were 8 – 23 adrift after fifteen ends There was no improvement over the last few ends and we lost on this rink 10 - 29 in an overall score of 88 – 99 bringing the curtain down on our winter fixtures for 2016 - 2017